Read the entire Editorial: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-foia-0127-jm-20130127,0,4995587.story Nine months ago, the nonprofit For the Good of Illinois asked the Illinois comptroller’s office […]

FACT: The Quinn administration has targeted state employees and managers
inside his administration– Did they “blow-the-whistle” on his no-bid deal?

It’s Illinois’ largest project in history outside of road construction. Upgrading the outdated Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) will cost up to $190 million dollars. An intergovernmental agreement with Michigan was used to avoid a bidding process.

But, not one Springfield lawyer issued a legal opinion regarding this agreement.Why?

7. August 20, 2013: Chicago Tribune reports that Illinois officials state they knew the entire history of CNSI and went forward anyway. Arkansas comes to a different conclusion disqualifying CNSI from its bidding process as an “irresponsible vendor.”

8. September 17, 2013: The contentious legislative hearing at James R. Thompson Center was recorded and available online for a few days, but then disappeared. An equipment “malfunction” makes the backup cd mostly inaudible.

Primary Vendor sits on project “Steering Committee: Does one company, CNSI get to trade on government information, plan implementation, potentially fence out competitors, and then procure the public contracts without bid? Read this email

State legislature–“in the dark”: the Quinn administration buried a $26.126 million appropriation for the MMIS upgrade in the Public Aid Recovery Trust Fund.

Yet, Quinn’s administration is investigating their own employees rather than backing out of this bad deal.Typical Illinois politics. Insider companies get the lucrative contracts, whistle blowers get investigated, and taxpayers get the bills.

Gov. Patrick Quinn looks more like his two immediate predecessors by the day.